6 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Perspective

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on perspective

6. It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

18. Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

60. I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

61. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

78. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

145. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.